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Selma Lagerlöf Quotes: Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
         

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.


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The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.



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